UVA Swimming: Did a employees member have to depart over a switch recruit?

Back in April, UVA Swimming landed a star recruit from the transfer portal, Teagan O’Dell, the second highest scoring freshman on the 2026 NCAA Championships whereas swimming for Cal.

The phrase behind the scenes in swimming circles is that O’Dell’s determination to switch to Virginia is why Logan Redondo, who coached O’Dell throughout her time with the Mission Viejo Nadadores youth program, left the employees of head coach Todd DeSorbo final week, after only one yr on Grounds.

An AFP reader alerted me to the potential connection between the 2 strikes, noting that O’Dell left MVN throughout her highschool senior season, together with a number of members of the MVN workforce.

I’ve come throughout a number of vagueposting references to suspected points with the MVN swim workforce on Redondo’s watch, although nothing substantive.

And to be truthful to Redondo right here, his new job is at Minnesota, the place he was a member of the swim program, and he was respectable – he certified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2012 and 2016.

And it seems that the job on the alma mater is a step up – he’ll be an assistant coach at Minnesota; at Virginia, Redondo had the title of Director of Professional Performance and Data Analysis.

If this was a commerce for DeSorbo, to agree to seek out Redondo one other job in order that O’Dell would comply with matriculate on Grounds, I imply, sensible transfer there by the ol’ head coach.

O’Dell was the #2 ranked recruit within the Class of 2025, and in accordance with SwimSwam.com, she made the NCAA ‘A’ remaining in all three of her particular person swims, ending second within the 200 IM (1:52.76), third within the 400 IM (3:59.43) and sixth within the 200 again (1:49.70).

That’s the type of swimmer who will help you win a seventh straight nationwide title.

Directors of Professional Performance and Data Analysis are a dime a dozen.

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